Proverbs 24:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He that saith, to wit, publicly, and in judgment, as he now said, and as appears by the publicness of the curse following upon it, for people or nations do neither observe nor hate every man who saith thus privately. Thou art righteous, that justify wicked men in their unrighteous courses. Nations shall abhor him, partly for the grossness and odiousness of the crime, and partly for the great and general mischief which such practices bring to civil societies.